Monday, February 6, 2017

When people ask me what my politics are, I say Christian. When they persist I either say I'm an avant garde conservative or a reactionary progressive depending on which answer I judge will make them most nervous. I believe in timeless truth and infinite love. I believe that truth and love are not opposites. Indeed when we are in Christ it turns out that they're the same thing.

That means the only source of true love is Christ. This is a poem/song about that fact. About realizing that the source of the love we give others is Him who first loved us

C FYou came and woke me upF G To say you'd had enough.C GEnough of the loneliness and the fear.F D GToo much of the road and not enough of here.F G7But the hole in your soul is too big to fill.Am And mine is bigger still.F G7I don't have the love you need.C F And I don't think I ever will.Chorus

F G7We can't fill our souls with us.Am Tossing holes into holes,F G7My empty can't fill you up.C FAnd we both feel so alone.ChorusF G7I've heard there was a manWho died to heal our hearts.Maybe if I can get his love.Then I can share it with you.C FHe came and woke us up.F G To tell us He was enough.C GTo banish our loneliness and our fear.F D GAnd to make our pathways clear.And my hole is still too big to fill.But he filled it all the same.F G7He gave me so much love to spareThat I can truly love you.C FHe came and woke us up.F G To tell us He was enough.C GTo banish our loneliness and our fear.F G CAnd to make our pathways clear.End.F G7Yes he rose to save our souls for love.C DAnd he forever will.